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SUMMARY:Droplet microfluidics driven by confinement gradients: from ultral
 ow volume chemistry to 10\,000 parallel cell cultures
DTSTART:20130625T141500
DTEND:20130625T151500
DTSTAMP:20260407T224533Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Charles N. Baroud\, Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique\, Ecole
  Polytechnique\, Paris (F)\nBio: Charles Baroud graduated from MIT in 1993
 \, before doing a PhD with Harry Swinney\, at the University of Texas at A
 ustin. He then did a post-doc with Patrick Tabeling at Ecole Normale Supé
 rieure\, in Paris\, before joining Ecole Polytechnique as a faculty member
  in 2002. At Polytechnique he founded and currently leads the microfluidic
 s group at the Hydrodynamics laboratory. His research interests combine fu
 ndamental questions on the physics of fluids with applications to lab on a
  chip technology. This has lead to a set of unique tools for the productio
 n and manipulation of droplet microreactors for biological and chemical ap
 plications. In 2011\, he received a European Research Council grant for de
 veloping these tools specifically for cellular biology.\nTen years ago dro
 plet microfluidics promised to revolutionize chemistry and biology. So far
  it has remained limited to niche applications\, in part due to the comple
 xity of re-formulating application questions in the "serial" format of tra
 ditional droplet techniques. In my talk I will present an approach for wor
 king with stationary droplets\, in order to observe their contents from se
 conds to days. It is based on generating gradients of surface energy for p
 roducing\, guiding\, or holding drops. I will first present the underlying
  physical mechanisms\, before discussing different applications we have de
 veloped for chemical kinetics measurements and cell screening.
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